1163 Event

Notre-Dame and the Gothic surge

Name: Notre-Dame and the Gothic surge
Start: 1163

From Saint-Denis to Chartres, Gothic architecture turns light into theology and spreads across Europe.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1163 — the context national timelines leave out.

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Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

High and Late Middle Ages 1000 – 1453 Towns, universities, cathedrals, plague and long wars.

What was written of it

a Socialist United States of Europe

George Orwell 1947

Toward European Unity